Woman&#39;s drawers.



No. 765,556 PATENTED JULY 19, 1904.

H. M. GHITTENDEN'.

' WOMENS DRAWERS.

APPLICATION FILED 001212.,1895. RENEWED JUNE 22, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

Patented J uly 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

HARRIET M. OHITTENDEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WOIVIANS DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 765,556, dated July 19, 1904..

Application filed October 12, 1895.

To 0/ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRIET M. OHITTEN- DEN, residing in the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Womens Drawers; and I- do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the manufacture of that to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Heretofore the clothing of Women has consisted of drawers first made full about the body and followed by a skirt similarly about the1 body, causing unnecessary warmth and bu I.

My object is to make one garment serve as an entire cover with one thickness, thereby avoiding the unnecessary warmth and bulk of two.

The nature of my invention will fully appear from the subjoined description when considered with the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of the inner face of the garment, showing the construction of the legs and their attachment to the skirt. In this figure the garment is separated at the rear and laid out flat. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the legs. the portion removed from the common drawers-legs pattern to form my pattern. This portion consists of two wings joined at their lower slightly-curved edges 0 c to form one piece. Their straight edges cl 0?, right and left, are joined to the sides of the skirt portion A, Fig. 1, and complete the drawers portion, constituting a union garment from parts That portion of the skirt marked a of two.

In this figure the dotted lines show Renewed .Tune 22, 1904. Serial No. 213,613. (No model.) 7

a which lies between the attached edges 7) b of the wings B Bforms a part of the drawers.

The appropriation of the sides of a skirted garment to complete the drawers portion does not take from a skirt proper any of its qualities. tical desirable garment of one thickness, being less bulky, cooler, and cheaper than two.

I am aware that prior to my invention trousers entire have been joined by different methods to skirts, and parts of skirts have been added to trousers. The lower portions of drawers have been joined crosswise to the middle of skirts, and skirts have been divided and arranged for the wheel, &c. I therefore do not broadly claim these.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described combined skirt and drawers, the same comprising a skirt having secured thereto, upon its inner face upon each of the opposite sides thereof, a drawers-leg, consisting of two Wing portions extending from the upper edge of the skirt to the bottom thereof at a suitable distance apart, each -wing being gored at the top to form an opening from the waist to the crotch and joined together from the crotch to the bottom of the skirt, whereby the drawers-leg, upon each side It is held in position, making it a pracof the skirt comprises for its outer wall that I portion of the skirt extending between the two wings making up the remainder thereof, as set forth.

' HARRIET M. OHITTENDEN. Witnesses:

J. D. H. BERGEN, ELLA (J. JoNEs. 

